Nikil Saval is a father, writer and community organizer, the first Asian American to be elected Democratic ward leader in Philadelphia.
He’s proud to be raising his son, Ishaan, in South Philly with his wife, Shannon. In 2009, he organized boycotts with UNITE HERE against luxury hotel developers to fight for the rights of housekeepers. In 2013, he helped win back jobs for 1,000 cafeteria workers and noontime aides, who had been laid off because of Gov. Corbett’s cuts to the state education budget.
In 2016 he was a leader in the Bernie Sanders campaign and he co-founded Reclaim Philadelphia. In 2018, he organized campaigns to fight for change in the Democratic Party and became elected as leader of the Second Ward. Nikil is committed to justice for working people, whether white, Black or brown. He will fight for a Philadelphia and Pennsylvania that works for the many and not the few.